Russell Baker
Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (April 2008)
From the Review
April 3, 2008: Condi and the Boys
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life by Elisabeth Bumiller
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy by Glenn Kessler
October 25, 2007: The Conservative Betrayed
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak
August 16, 2007: Goodbye to Newspapers?
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina by W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston
American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media by Neil Henry
April 12, 2007: 'Dutch' (letter)
March 1, 2007: Reconstructing Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins
Reagan: A Life in Letters edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, with a foreword by George P. Shultz
The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror by John Arquilla
Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years by Robert M. Collins
November 2, 2006: The Wealth of Loneliness
Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
August 10, 2006: Glimpses
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
May 11, 2006: Talking It Up
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller
January 12, 2006: Baker's 'World'
The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898–1911) by Nicholson Baker and Margaret Brentano
November 3, 2005: The Entertainer
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren
The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry
Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World,1869–1922 by Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes
April 28, 2005: Fathers and Son
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop by Joseph Lelyveld
November 18, 2004: A Great Reporter at Large
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by David Remnick
The Telephone Booth Indian by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by Luc Sante
The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling, with a foreword by Robert Anasi
November 18, 2004: Der FÜHrer's Face (letter)
November 18, 2004: A Great Reporter at Large
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling, with an introduction by James Salter
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
October 21, 2004: Death in Battle? (letter)
August 12, 2004: Troublemaker
Losing America by Robert C. Byrd
July 15, 2004: John D. Rockefeller Jr.: An Exchange
May 13, 2004: In Bush's Washington
February 12, 2004: Back to Normalcy!
Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean
December 18, 2003: On Not Rocking the Boat (letter)
November 6, 2003: The Awful Truth
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman
June 12, 2003: An American Family
Memoirs by David Rockefeller
January 16, 2003: Thus Spake Henry
The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout
The Diary of H.L. Mencken edited by Charles A. Fecher
Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken by William Manchester
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley
In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom and H.L. Mencken edited by Edward A. Martin
The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
The Vintage Mencken edited by Alistair Cooke
Mencken: A Life by Fred Hobson
December 19, 2002: The Shrinking News (letter)
October 24, 2002: The Non-Conformist
Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir by John McCain
Citizen McCain by Elizabeth Drew
July 18, 2002: What Else Is News?
The Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency by Jim Bellows
Into the Buzzsaw:Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press edited by Kristina Borjesson, with a foreword by Gore Vidal
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin
The News About the News:American Journalism in Peril by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
April 11, 2002: The Performer
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt edited by H.W. Brands
September 20, 2001: Out of Step with the World
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell
My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
May 17, 2001: Mr. Right
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein
Suburban Warriors Lisa McGirr
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons
November 16, 2000: Where Has Joe Gone?
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
August 10, 2000: A Boy's Life
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
March 23, 2000: The Love Boat
About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagodam
Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross edited by Thomas Kunkel
Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta
Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker by Renata Adler
Here But Not Here by Lillian Ross
Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
The Years with Ross by James Thurber
January 20, 2000: Cruel and Usual
Proximity to Death by William S. McFeely
October 7, 1999: Only in America
Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by Marguerite Young, edited and with an introduction by Charles Ruas
February 18, 1999: Decline and Fall
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton
July 16, 1998: The Exile
Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley I. Kutler
Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes by Allen J. Matusow
April 9, 1998: Bravest and Best
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 by Taylor Branch
The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign by Gerald D. McKnight
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle by Glenn T. Eskew
October 23, 1997: Feud
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David M. Barrett
From New York Review Books
 | Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington Russell Baker in his preface writes: "In Washington an age of moral and philosophical sterility is deeply entrenched, and as Elizabeth Drew's reporting attests, the result is not pretty .... |
 | Looking Back: Heroes, Rascals, and Other Icons of the American Imagination (paperback) In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. |
 | Looking Back In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. |
Books by Russell Baker
Looking Back (2002)